Jean did not appear on This Morning for the chat but she speak with the presenting duo via phone as she revealed how she liked to keep an eye on things by tuning into the ITV soap

Speaking about her legendary character, Holly asked: "Did you have any idea she was going to become such an icon?"

Jean replied: "No. When I first went into it, the show was three and a half years old. I went in half way through '64, and I met Bernard, we'd never met each other before, but we'd worked in theatre, different theatres, for quite a long time.

"We sort of hit it off, as far as work was concerned. This was a wonderful job, television was getting real money, not what they get now of course, [but] compared with the theatre.

"I think I left theatre after 12 years, at £10 a week. Getting into the Street, into television at all, was a big thing for me."